HEALTHY AGEING WEEK 2021 - FONDAZIONE FERRERO
Healthy Aging Week 2021
Fondazione Ferrero 8-13 November 2021
From 8th to 13th of November, in the Fondazione Ferrero of Alba, a week of insights will take place dedicated to Healthy Aging; successful aging. The event will host the fifth edition of the scientific international conference Successful aging 2021: Strength and vulnerability of the elderly, organized by Fondazione Ferrero in collaboration with Accademia di Medicina of Turin, the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan and the Karolinska Instituet of Stockholm.
Under the high Patronage of the European Parliament, the Healthy Ageing week 2021 will offer 5 days of reflection about aging themes in relation to diverse areas of expertise and with specific aims, with participation and contributions from international speakers in the field of medicine, scientific research and communication that will address, among others, themes such as, Covid-19 in the elderly, Immunosenescence, Oncogeriatrics and Social Geriatrics.
Monday 8th November, Good information makes life longer, a professional refresher course for journalists, in collaboration with Ordine dei Giornalisti of Piemonte.
Tuesday 9th of November, Paediatricians, Geriatricians and Life-Course Approach: two ends meet, accredited symposium by ECM.
Wednesday 10th of November, Oxidants and Antioxidants in Aging, Workshop about the international scientific society Oxygen Club of California.
Thursday 11th and Friday 12th of November, Successful aging 2021: Strength and vulnerability of the elderly – international conference accredited by ECM.
Saturday 13th of November, The days that count, an educational day aimed at a wider and diverse audience, to make accessible all themes that have been addressed in previous days.
The world health organisation has proclaimed 2021-2030 the Decade of the United Nations for Healthy Aging. It is a global collaboration that puts the elderly in the centre of a plan that involves governments, civil society, international agencies, professionals, universities, media, and the private sector, in order to improve life for the elderly, their families and the communities they live in.
The populations of the whole world are aging faster compared to the past, and this demographic transition has an impact on multiple levels of society. There are more than 1 billion people of an age equal to or greater than 60 years old, the majority of whom live in countries with low or medium income. Many do not have access to the basic resources necessary for a decent life. Others face numerous barriers that prevent their full participation in society. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the severity of the gaps existing in politics, systems, and services.
For this reason, it is important that the Decade of Healthy Aging brings about a change in the way we think and act towards age and aging; to promote the abilities of elderly people; to supply integrated cures centred on the individual and the basic health services for the elderly; to supply access to long term assistance, in the communities that we live in.
Since the 80s the Fondazione Ferrero has been conducting a vast program of health and social care for the “Ferrero elderly”, who are current and retired employees with at least 25 years of activity in the company, this health and social care is articulated in multiple actions: the promotion of physical activity, with courses aimed towards preventing and fighting typical pathologies of aging, health monitoring with acts of support (periodical visits, exam bookings, accompaniment, etc.) at clinical institutes and other health and rehabilitative structures, supply of multiple services of volunteering and social, cultural and scientific initiatives. The work of the Fondazione aims to ensure that all elderly people can fulfil their potential with dignity and equality in a healthy environment.
From a wealth of experience, since 2013, the Fondazione has organized conferences every two years of international stature to promote reflections on changing demographics and the resulting social downfall, promoting a model in which the senior world is seen as a positive resource and as a chance for new experiences. In the centre of the scientific debate, the best clinical and social strategies to transform old age into a resource for the community.
Starting on Monday 8th of November with Good information makes life longer, a refresher course for journalists in collaboration with the Ordine dei Giornalisti of Piemonte. Participation is expected from: Telmo Pievani (professor of philosophy of biological sciences at Universita’ di Padova), the professor Matilde Leonardi and Erika Guastaferro (Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta of Milan), of the scientific journalist and writer Roberta Villa, the Professor Guendalina Graffigna (director of EngageMinds HUB-Consumer & Health Research Center of Universita’ Cattolica in Piacenza) and the professor Giancarlo Isaia (president of Accademia di Medicina of Turin). The goal of the day is a reflection dedicated to topics linked with aging that considers the models of medical and scientific information and education.
Monday 8th of November falls into the refresher’s appointments and continuous formation of the Ordine dei Giornalisti. More information and details are available on the portal S.i.Ge.f. https://sigef-odg.lansystems.it/ .
Tuesday 9th of November the symposium Paediatricians, Geriatricians and Life-Course Approach: two ends meet, will be dedicated to the convergencies between paediatrics and geriatrics, focusing on physical and mental welfare that considers social, economic, and environmental factors, alongside behavioural risk factors that are often grouped in the population, it will also be reflecting on real life. The speakers of the symposium will be: Carlo Agostoni, director of Pediatria di Media Intensità di Cura alla Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, Matteo Cesari associate professor of Geriatrics at Universita’ di Milano, Marco Canevelli of Centro Nazionale per la Prevenzione delle Malattie e la Promozione della Salute dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Marcel Rufo professor emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Marseille, Nicola Montano of Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche e di Comunità dell’Università degli studi di Milano, Mikel Izquierdo of Navarrabiomed, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Universidad Pública de Navarra, CIBER of Frailty and Halthy Aging, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Raana Shamir professor of pediatrics in the University of Tel -Aviv.
Wednesday 10th of November Oxidants and Antioxidants in Aging workshop of the international scientific society Oxygen Club of California that dedicates itself to the improvement of education and the promotion of research in the field of oxidants, antioxidants, nutrition, micronutrients, free radicals in biology and medicine.
Thursday 11th and Friday 12th of November
will be dedicated to the scientific sessions of the conference Successful aging 2021: Strength and vulnerability of the elderly and accredited in compliance with the ministerial legislation for Formazione Continua in Medicina, ECM. Opening the session dedicated to Covid-19 in the elderly will be Athanase Benetos, president of the European Geriatric Medicine Society. He will be followed by the physicist Alessandro Vespignani, the infectious disease specialists Massimo Galli and Giovanni Di Perri, and immunologist Alberto Mantovani, the president of Accademia di Medicina of Turin Giancarlo Isaia.
Discussing Immunosenescence, of the progressive lowering of immune defences in the process of ageing, will be: Andrea Cossarizza, professor of general Pathology and Immunology at Universita’ di Modena e Reggio, Rino Rappuoli microbiologist, Gold Medal to the merit of public health in 2005, Gianvito Martino, neuroscientist at Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele di Milano, the geriatrician Patrizia D’Amelio of the University of Lausanne.
Friday 12th of November in the session about Oncogeriatrics there will be: Lorenzo Richiardi director of Centro di Riferimento per l’Epidemiologia e la Prevenzione Oncologica of Università di Torino, Mati Aapro of Genolier Cancer Centre, Massimo Collino professor of Farmacology at Universita’ di Torino, Riccardo Torta full professor of Clinical Psicology at Universita’ di Torino, Alessandro Comandone director of Struttura Complessa di Oncologia Medica of ASL Città di Torino. Discussing geriatrics there will be: John Beard professor at ARC Centre for Excellence in Population Aging Research dell’Università in New South Wales in Australia, Marco Inzitari director of Intermediate Care, Research and Teaching, Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili Hospital of Barcellona and Gilberto Turati of Facoltà di Economia of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano. The day will be concluded with the presentation of the winners of the Fondazione Ferrero Prize, which will be given to the best abstract submitted.
Saturday 13th November, The days that count, has an informative and educational focus and is aimed at a larger and more diverse audience compared to the previous days. There will be a dialogue between: writer and journalist Piero Bianucci, Francesco De Bartolomeis, class of 1918, professor emeritus of pedagogy at Universita’ di Torino, Pulitzer Prize Jared Diamond, professor of geography at the University of California of Los Angeles (in videocall from the United States), Veronica Ferrero, reasercher at Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare di Torino, Sergio Pecorelli, professor emeritus of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Università di Brescia and President of Fondazione Lorenzini Milano-New York.
To access the conference The days that count booking will be necessary on www.fondazioneferrero.it . The dialogue will be streamed on the Facebook page of the Fondazione and the streaming channel of www.fondazioneferrero.it .
Entry to all days of the Healthy Aging Week 2021 is only permitted to holders of a valid Green Pass.
The full program of the days of study is available on the website www.fondazioneferrero.it.
During the days of the conference, the international guests of the Healthy ageing week 2021 will be able to visit the exibition “Burri. La poesia della materia” that has been set up in Fondazione Ferrero until the 30th of January 2022.
For info: margherita.campanello(at)fondazioneferrero.it; phone 0173 295094.
